LENIN MISCELLANY

1 The Revolutionary War Council of the Eastern Front in a telegram dated November 1, 1919, 
requested the equipping of military hospitals in connection with a threatening epidemic 
of typhus in the Ufa district.

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TELEGRAM TO B. S. WEISBROD.

via direct wire
Samara

Special Commission of the People's Commissariat of Health Weisbrod 1
25. XI. 1919

Remain on the Turkestan Front. Another commission has gone to the Eastern Front. [9581

Chairman of the Council of Defense Lenin.

1 B. S. Weisbrod — in 1919, chairman of the extraordinary sanitary commission 
for combating typhus on the Turkestan Front.

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DIRECTIVE TO SECRETARY

[December 25, 1919]

To Semashko for presentation to the [Soviet 
of] Defense — draft resolution.

1 Commander of the 8th Army G. Sokolnikov reported to Lenin in a telegram about 
the mass character of the typhus epidemic and requested authorization to release ahead 
of schedule medical personnel from the 5th course of Voronezh University, placing all 
graduated doctors at the disposal of the 8th Army.

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DIRECTIVE TO SECRETARY.

18/1 [1920]

I request that you telephone Markov, telling 
him that I am strongly supporting Semashko's 
request.

Lenin.

1 People's Commissar of Health P. A. Semashko in a telephonogram addressed to Lenin 
requested an immediate directive for faster movement of a very urgent train "headed by 
the extraordinary sanitary commission comrade Weisbrod, carrying material resources 
to the southern Front and Ukraine for combating typhus." This directive was to be issued 
by Deputy People's Commissar of Transportation S. D. Markov.